New and Old #122
Friday roundup and commentary
Why YIMBY Righteousness Backfires, The Atlantic, Reihan Salam, July 15, 2023
Reihan Salam is a smart guy; he runs the conservative Manhattan Institute, which publishes the sometimes-urbanist City Journal. Folks on Twitter dragged this article—partly because he does this thing where he says YIMBYs are basically correct but can be annoying (which political…